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What attacks did garchomp use to finish off murkrow and torterra and what did murkrow use against giga impact? I don't think I've seen them before.

70% of the Serebii population uses ultra powerful legendaries (also known as ubers) in their teams.
If you are one of the 30% that thinks outside the box and doesn't use ubers, copy and paste this into your signature!
(^started by SapphireL!)

It is true that Paul didn't expect to win the full fight against Cynthia, but he did want to take out at least Garchomp.

What he did was to use random Pokémon he didn't expect to beat it anyway, until Giga Impact would show up. He'd then take advantage of Garchomp being unable to move for a moment to have his Torterra drain its energy.

Also, he did participate in the respective leagues for the regions he travelled in, of course. He merely said that he has yet to win a tournament.

I guess I'll have to wait until I'm blue in the face for Takeda to be fired. Oh well, it was one of his better directed episodes I admit, but out of all characters, it was really only Cynthia who looked surprisingly good - with the rest being either acceptable or meh.

Speaking of Cynthia, she was very entertaining. We got to see many different sides from her, including a bit of what one wouldn't really expect from a "Champion character", like when it took her one hour (60 MINUTES!) to choose her ice cream flavor. I had to laugh at that. Would've never expected Team Rocket (especially Jessie) to have so much patience XD

I thought the script was good enough as a whole, but could they please stop having Ash greet Paul in a friendly way? I thought they had quit that after DP006, but then they did it again -_-

Not complaining about Ash defending Paul when he got laughed at (that was one of my favorite scenes in fact), but what the writers did was making Ash go all, "Uh..what the heck are YOU doing here?" in DP015, only convert back to a "yay friendz" attitude this time, which I'd definitely label as inconsistency.

Those kiddies in the background were funny and annoying at the same time. They made the same comments that I'd make if it hadn't been Paul who was battling Cynthia, but when they started laughing at him...no. Instead I started laughing when they went dead-silent the second Ash told them to shut up. Haha!

There was an awesome piece of music (which unfortunately played way too quiet IMO) when Paul calls out Torterra, I assume it's from the games...?

Originally Posted by Crask

Anyway, what do the unown ruins translate to? I have the Japanese message as: FRIEND
SUBETE NO INOCHI HA
BETSU NO INOCHI TO DEAI
NANIKA WO UMIDASU

If you don't mind if I destroy the harmonic sounding text, here:
Friend
Every living being
Encounters other living beings
And gives birth to [originates] something

Or something. Cynthia additionally explained that whenever someone meets new people (or new Pokémon), those are going to change him/her in some way.

I'll definitely be happy whenever Cynthia is announced to come back, and the same goes for Paul obviously. I'm interested to see how his team will look like in the end.

Why didn't Shinji have Manyula get out of the way of that Dragon Dive? Manyula (ice-type) could have won that if it had just moved about a bit what a perfect waste of Double-type advantage. If Ash ever faces Shirona and Garchomop, I say Glalie all the way.

So Ash and Shinji have been battling about the same amount of time. Interesting. Wonder what Shinji has in reserve...

Prehaps the reason Pauls keeping Chimchar is because he knows somebody who has one and it was able to take down his Turtwig.. For all we know Paul could have loads of rivals, and being beaten by them could be what makes him so bitter.

That could also be why he only wants strong types because He wants to beat them without having to stop every once in a while and train the ones he has.

Wow, that was a great and informational episode. It seems Paul wants to release his chimchar but for some reason cannot, may be a he is waiting for some worthy trainer to get it, thats why he is challanging Ash, so that 1 day he gets stronger and hands his chmchar to Ash. Or may be some emotional probles or bugging him as many told. Any way its great to know that he is not a beggining trainer, his torterra already knows frenzy plant, so that means he must have been having it from a long time. And its surprising to not see his elekid, it may be beacue he released it( most propably not) or that he already know that garchomp is part groung type. It would be great to know more about him, and i am waiting for more character bio's updates.

Posting to the episodes directly is not allowed, so sorry guys but I had to delete your posts. ;_; As much as I like to watch said episodes themselves, especially one with an Elite Four member. You can still say you've found the episodes on Youtube and the like, and from there I'm sure people can PM/Find the episodes themselves so it's kinda like a nice loophole.

Not seen this episode yet, but finding out Shinji isn't a starting trainer but one that's travelled several regions before is interesting. I hope we get flashbacks to his previous adventures... like a flashback to Roxanne.

Possibly with no clothes on.

Anyway, not too keen on Cynthia myself at the moment, but this episode sounds good.

This was an amazing episode and one of my favorites! Cynthia's charater was awesome. She wasn't a serious type of character and she had some humorous scenes (like picking out the ice cream).

Paul being an experienced trainer was also great to hear. It really makes you wonder what he did during the Kanto/Johto/Hoenn regions and what he caught to.

Now Croagunk in this episode stopping Poison Jab was priceless as well. Not to mention seeing Lucian and the Palkia/Dialga gems was cool too. So yeah, this is an awesome episode and I hope we get to see more from Paul and Cynthia.